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Dr. Liza Michaeli is a philosopher and poet.
She holds a PhD in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work moves between philosophy and embodied practice, asking what it means to remain present to the difficulty of living and of being with one another.
She is the founder of Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything, an ongoing philosophical seminar and public project concerned what it means to affirm life without requiring reconciliation with it.
She is also the creator of ENCUENTRO, a series of filmed encounters with dancers and movement artists that brings philosophical inquiry into conversation with the body. Beginning from a question rather than a predetermined choreography, each encounter asks what two bodies might discover about being with another person that neither could decide beforehand.
Her first book in progress, Recovering the Pain, originating in her doctoral dissertation, considers what it means no longer to avoid the pain of living. Her second, How We Are with One Another, asks what it takes to remain human with one another.